Wild Palms

In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the temptations of respectability. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict sets forth across a flooded river, risking his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation, survival and self-sacrifice, a novel in which elemental danger is juxtaposed with fatal injuries of the spirit.

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Imprint: Vintage Classics

Published: 05/10/2000

ISBN: 9780099282921

Length: 304 Pages

Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

Weight: 213g

RRP: £9.99

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"There is no writer living who can play upon a scene the rich and Rembrandtesque flame that Faulkner commands"